With only 12 days (!) left before the presidential election, Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are still trying to reach potential voters. One way is by appearing on popular podcasts, where they can speak to listeners directly—and often avoid tougher questions from traditional journalists. As the chart below shows, Trump has been on at least 20 shows versus at least six for Harris. Read more ›
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Roblox has boosted some safety measures for children on its video game site, hoping to stem growing criticism that its product is unsafe for young people. Those tweaks include limiting some parts of Roblox’s chat features for users younger than 13 and creating a new type of account for parents, ... Read more ›
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A Florida woman Tuesday sued Character.AI, an app where people message with personalized chatbots in hyperrealistic interactions, claiming the app contributed to her son’s suicide. Megan Garcia also sued Character’s co-founders Noam Shazeer and Daniel De Freitas, as well as Google, which in ... Read more ›
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Miles Brundage, an OpenAI policy leader focused on ensuring the safety of its upcoming artificial intelligence, announced in a post on X on Wednesday that he would be leaving the company so he can “have more freedom to publish” research on the topic and “be more independent.” His exit adds onto ... Read more ›
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Last fall, several Google artificial intelligence leaders met with Jonathan Siddharth, CEO of a startup that sells access to part-time software engineers on demand. The Google managers asked Siddharth whether the startup, Turing, could use its army of human programmers to teach Google’s AI to be better at completing coding tasks, according to a person who heard the discussion. Would doing so take 500, 800 or 1,000 programmers, and how... Read more ›
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Meta’s recent decision to shut down its augmented reality platform has prompted some frustrated developers to switch to Snap, according to Bloomberg News. Meta announced in August that it will shut down Meta Spark, which allows outside developers to build custom AR photo filters and effects ... Read more ›
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Bank of America said it has doubled its artificial intelligence and machine learning-related patents in the last two years amid a move by large financial institutions to tout their technology bonafides. The bank on Wednesday said its portfolio of patents and pending applications now includes ... Read more ›
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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has banned Goldman Sachs from launching new credit cards without approval and fined the bank $65 million for failing to properly handle customer disputes and making misleading claims related to its Apple card program. The CFPB also fined Apple $25 million ... Read more ›
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Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that a design problem with its new Blackwell AI chip had been fixed, adding that the flaw was “100% Nvidia’s fault,” Reuters reported. He described reports that the issue had caused tensions between Nvidia and TSMC, the Taiwanese chip giant that ... Read more ›
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Temu is making swift progress in winning over popular Amazon merchants to sell on its bargain site, thanks to a simple pitch: It’s much cheaper for merchants to sell on Temu than on Amazon. Temu has already added more than 60% of major China-based Amazon sellers of products like bedding sets and vacuum cleaners and is enlisting U.S.-based merchants as well, two people familiar with the company said. The big... Read more ›
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In the tight race between well-funded developers of conversational AI, Anthropic has suddenly made some real gains.The startup on Tuesday announced new software that completes tasks for people, such as building a website or editing a spreadsheet. The feature, called “computer use,” means that Anthropic’s Claude model can actually view users’ screens and take actions for them like moving a cursor, clicking buttons and typing text.(Computer use works by taking... Read more ›
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Apple has sharply scaled back production of its Vision Pro mixed reality headset since the early summer and could stop making the existing version of the device entirely by year end, according to multiple people directly involved in building components for the device. The move suggests that Apple has enough inventory built up to meet demand for the foreseeable future. It follows Apple’s decision earlier this year to focus on... Read more ›
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Arm, whose chip technology powers most of the world’s mobile devices, is canceling a license that allows Qualcomm to design chips based on its intellectual property, Bloomberg reported. The move is an escalation of a dispute that the two companies have had since 2021 after Qualcomm purchased ... Read more ›
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Bill Gates has said privately that he recently donated about $50 million to a nonprofit organization that supports Vice President Kamala Harris’s run for president, The New York Times reported. The news of Gates’s donation comes at a time when Harris and former President Donald Trump are ... Read more ›
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MrBeast so wishes he had not entered that burger deal! That’s one of the takeaways from a series of angry and regretful messages sent by YouTuber Jimmy Donaldson to a business confidant months before he sued the restaurant operator. The exchanges, part of a deluge of new court filings and exhibits, show Donaldson and colleagues discussing a rapidly souring partnership with the company behind MrBeast Burgers. Some also provide previously... Read more ›
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Memo to the Kamala Harris campaign: Have you checked out Temu? The presidential candidate faces a bunch of voters unhappy with how prices for consumer goods have skyrocketed under President Joe Biden. But she could push back on those complaints by pointing people to the website of Temu, the Chinese-owned bargain-basement shopping service that has taken off in the U.S. in the past two years. For instance, you could find... Read more ›
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT has become a multibillion-dollar business in large part because programmers use it to write and check their code, fix bugs and translate code into different programming languages. Now, facing competition from rival artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, OpenAI is putting more effort into improving the tools it offers for software programming. Some products or features under development aim to make it easier to use OpenAI’s AI for coding tasks... Read more ›
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Stripe’s announcement that it was buying cryptocurrency payments startup Bridge delivered a dose of optimism to venture capitalists this week. The deal is poised to become the largest-ever crypto acquisition and punctuated a particularly dreary market for mergers and public offerings.The purchase values the two-and-a-half-year-old company at $1.1 billion, or 90 times revenue, according to Yueqi’s reporting. It's a quick win for investors like Ribbit Capital and Haun Ventures, firms... Read more ›
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Netflix has shut down one of its videogaming studios and laid off staff associated with it, a sign that at least part of its much-heralded effort to expand into gaming has run into problems. The blog Game File reported that Netflix had shut down a studio known as team Blue, laying off several ... Read more ›
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Amazon is shutting down a service that offered same-day deliveries for bricks-and-mortar retailers like Office Depot and Petco, CNBC reported Tuesday. The service, called Amazon Today, used gig drivers, who would pick up orders from retail stores and deliver them to customers. The program, ... Read more ›
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